#vintage mtg

[vaguely-art]

Wanted to treat myself to something fun tonight as a distraction and entered the midnight Vintage challenge on mtgo, and I'm walking into round 5 with a 3-1 record, guaranteed to at least make my entry fee back and very likely to do better. Let's go?

[cardboard-crack]

[hairiclilred]

starting to draw some proxies for a vintage cube

[greatnorthernofficial]

"I wanna play Magic Online or Arena "

"We have a Magic video game at home"

Its so awful, I love it

[finncapashen]

Ancestral Recall Based on the original Alpha artwork by Christopher Rush

You ever think about your gender so hard you draw 3 cards? I finished this in June and thought why not

[magicwithclass]

[ashaya]

Managed 2 trophies this evening for the Vintage Cube LIVE feeder leagues before they closed!

God I love cubing

[joan-deactivated20230204]

i hate to become that guy but waking up to announcements of like 10 different products, none of which appeal to me bc its mostly frame treatments & crossovers.. kind of feels like the nail in the coffin for me w being actively engaged in mtg. none of this is very interesting to me anymore

[avena-de-la-luna]

Alright, this card is just such an identity for black. Like, wow, it is actually insane that it was that early on that black got its signature 'graveyard digging' ability.

It might not be as iconic as Lich (which I adore sooo much), but I think it was just as impactful for the design of the colour.

[vaguely-art]

I'm posting this here too, y'all have to deal with it, I finally got my first undefeated trophy in Vintage on mtgo!!! Been playing this deck for a few months, started with a couple strong 4-1s and some 4-2 challenge finishes, but this is my first 5-0 run.

[cardboard-crack]

[milleniummarket]

[kelrion-art]

Asher, gentleman thief

🕺- Asher, gentleman thief - 🕺 . First post of 2024 here we goooo!!!🔥🔥 It's been a long journey but I finally managed to finish this thingy😤...I pushed it as much as I could and even though some parts leave space for some improvement I can say that I'm quiet satisfied with the end result. I had several ideas for Asher while designing him and also while trying to portray him and his robotic cats doing something. Maybe i'll try to do more things with him (more simpler??) the next time. The first design I did of him was the old man with some white hairs lol. I ended up overpaint an image of an actor i found on pinterest after several tries because i couldn't find the right expression ahah.🤔

The designing of the two cats was totally random ahah. They look like pumas but idk if i wanted them to be pumas but whatever. I wanted them to be a bit chunky but also very elegant.... can you be elegant and chunky? I guess you can x)

This year i'll try to post more illustrations since i've literally done only three pieces last year.... shame on me. Anyway I hope you like it 😎 .

[isolationsandhatred]

OK ok listen.

I love landstill. It's such a cool archetype and so dear and close to my heart but for the most part it is Not Great. It has some glaring issues as an archetype other control lists like Oath or grixis midrange or jeskai tempo or delver or esper control just don't struggle with for the main part, cause we chose standstill as a card draw engine and kind of like Gush it has some Deckbuilding Requirements that make it tick. Part of this is being able to land a threat under a standstill, part of this is managing your standstills vs your absolute tempo and the strange pattern of mana investment that goes along with that, part of that is managing your opponent's tempo while keeping pressure up. I have tried a fair few landstill decks that attempt to balance this: temur landstill with wrenn and oko is a blast but has some card investment/mana spent for the effect issues. UW landstill with Timeless Dragon and Shark Typhoon is great too cause it has a super simplified mana base and can really lean on being able to play wastelands and urza's saga in the same shell as well as having access to stony silence which is just... pretty good. It, however lacks the explosiveness of a t1 oko, t2 standstill kinda start, which is fine, it's just far more control oriented and less midrange which I thought was an interesting dilemma and wanted to play around with.

Enter stiflenaught, a deck that's been around for ages and (a) has a simple manabase, (b) has some explosive clocks (c) has a low manacurve and (d) can toolbox exceptionally well with urza's saga.

I took a stiflenaught shell and modified it to be standstill-compatible and to use lurrus because balance is cracked and we kind of wanted white anyways. This produced a pile of jank so monstrous that it took me a hot second to parse the play patterns associated with it and pare it down to a somewhat-workable pile. We're on a 61 card special because... uh, I like memes? Anyways, here's the list and I've had a lot of fun jamming it. Remember folks, vintage is cool and proxies are based af.

[jankcrankhank]

Intro, Migration, etc. Read this first!

So apparently I'm back here. I mean, like I had any chance of catching on on Substack, but still. They're not gonna police and deplatform nazis, fine, fuck 'em. I'm back on Tumblr.

What you'l find here are silly decks for Magic: the Gathering. Mostly EDH/Commander, but also some 60-card vintage stuff and other kitchen-table style builds. I post my occasional forays into making custom fan cards and they're here to download for free, so have fun with those.

I'm Jank Crank Hank (he/him; way older than you), and you can find me on Moxfield and BlueSky as @infocorn (and, sigh, yes on also on Twitter or whatever for the time being under the same name) too.

This space, as with my tables, is meant to be safe for everyone. If you're a bigot or an anything-phobe, a fascist or fashy apologist, or genereally just a fucking dick, just keep moving.